Junior Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Manager
Location: NL, NH, Amsterdam
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Marketing

Company profile:

Job description:
We are looking for a sharp candidate to join our marketing team, in order to improve the performance and scale of our global Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns. The SEM manager will help us in attracting thousands of new visitors a day by building world class marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate is passionate about SEM, loves developing new solutions and enjoys finding data patterns. A real experience in AdWords, Bing, Mobile marketing or Remarketing would be useful, but is not a requirement.      To successfully work in this position you will need critical thinking, creativity, team spirit and motivation to master the growing world of intent-based and data-driven marketing.                                               What you will achieve:• Build frameworks and rules that are the fundamentals of our search marketing campaigns;• Identify growth opportunities and work on the constant improvement of our campaign structures;• Create and manage large scale marketing campaigns for current and new markets using various tools;• Translate marketing needs into documentation for the development team to optimize our processes;• Help the marketing team grow revenue 3-5X in 2015.

Requirements:
• Marketing, Statistics, Business or Economics graduate from a leading university (MSc level preferred);• Programming experience is desirable (Ruby, Python);• Knowledge on extracting data with SQL;• High proficiency in Excel is a must (VBA), data analysis experience a big plus;• Experience with web analytics tools is a plus;• Genuinely interested in Search Engine Marketing;• Analytical, focused and precise;• Independent: can take ownership of a project and see it through to concrete results;• Fluency in English is a must; proficiency in other languages is a plus.

Benefits:
• A position in a dynamic talented international team;• Independent work in an innovative, rapidly growing company;• Fast personal development (opportunities to take courses and attend conferences);• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths;• Cross-functional opportunities in project and teamwork;• A beautiful office in the city center with fun perks (pool table, table tennis, lunch and snacks, company outings). Note: We are only able to recruit candidates who reside in or around Amsterdam, NL.The position is instantly available; with begin dates no later than early 2015.     Our CompanyInnovative Travel is a specialist in the paid search marketing niche, partnering in marketing hotel price comparison offers to millions of visitors across the world. Innovative Travel specializes in developing high scale, high resolution search marketing campaigns for the travel industry. Rapidly growing, we operate some of the leading hotel comparison sites in markets as diverse as Israel, Taiwan and Sweden.  The company is headed from a beautiful specious office in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and we enjoy the help of developers, translators and support members from across the world. Together with our local staff diverse nationalities, over 20 languages are spoken among our team (though most of the work is done in English, of course).